Reply #79: Nope, he has not retreated on DADT at all.

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It's just not going to happen today, and when it does happen it will be done right.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-ed-dontask15-2009aug15,0,5507360.story

"Obama maintains that Congress should overturn the law rather than his doing so by executive order, and he's right. That way, a President Romney or, say, President Palin could not reinstate "don't ask, don't tell" with his or her own stroke of the pen. Right now, Obama is moving cautiously, apparently aiming to avoid the experience of President Clinton, who wrestled clumsily with this issue early in his first term. But this is not 1993. Then, about 44% of Americans favored allowing gays to serve openly; last year, a Washington Post/ABC News poll put that number at 75%. And support is bipartisan: 64% of Republicans support a repeal."